DOCUMENTARY ROUNDUP – January 2012
Lots of docs to recommend this month! Take a look through the list below to find out more about our latest documentary releases:
0 comments Thursday 26 Jan 2012 | blogadmin | documentary, news & features
Lots of docs to recommend this month! Take a look through the list below to find out more about our latest documentary releases:
0 comments Thursday 26 Jan 2012 | blogadmin | documentary, news & features
The much-anticipated documentary I Am is the brainchild of Tom Shadyac, the director of a number of successful Hollywood comedies including Ace Ventura, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, and The Nutty Professor. This new feel-good movie follows him on his quest as he asks a variety of learned people two questions: What’s wrong with [...]
1 comment Friday 06 Jan 2012 | blogadmin | documentary, movie reviews
We’ve got eight non-fiction new arrivals for you — and they’re all definitely worth a look! Check out the list below to find out more about this month’s new documentary releases:
0 comments Thursday 29 Dec 2011 | blogadmin | documentary, news & features
Two things I love about Werner Herzog: first, he is profoundly and candidly curious about the world; second, he is profoundly and candidly eccentric when he expresses his curiosity. Some documentarians sit quietly as they behold their subjects, seemingly keen to avoid imprinting them with their own agenda (which [...]
1 comment Friday 02 Dec 2011 | blogadmin | blu-ray, documentary, recommendations
All the latest non-fiction films are right here — and this month there are some great picks to choose from!
0 comments Thursday 01 Dec 2011 | blogadmin | documentary, news & features
Errol Morris has done it again.
The documentary filmmaker behind The Fog of War and The Thin Blue Line has brought you another mind-boggling story that will both entertain, and possibly disturb.
0 comments Friday 04 Nov 2011 | blogadmin | documentary, movie reviews, recommendations
In 1964 Ken Kesey, writer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes A Great Notion, rounded up willing friends, painted a bus in the day-glo emergent fashion knocking at the country’s door, and crossed America, west to east, to attend the New York World’s Fair. Along the way, they took [...]
0 comments Friday 04 Nov 2011 | blogadmin | documentary, movie reviews
What’s new in non-fiction film? Check out the list below to find out more about our most recently acquired rentals:
0 comments Tuesday 25 Oct 2011 | blogadmin | documentary, news & features
Page One is a documentary, as the rest of the title states, “Inside the New York Times,” albeit in a very small nutshell. As Bruce Jay Friedman memorably once told Richard Pryor, he would demur on an invitation to get high, explaining that the 3 reasons why there are so few [...]
1 comment Thursday 20 Oct 2011 | blogadmin | documentary, movie reviews, recommendations
Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead is basically the antithesis of Morgan Spurlock’s Supersize Me of 2004. Back then, a healthy Spurlock subjected himself to a 30 day experiment, eating only McDonald’s menu items three meals a day, to prove the detrimental effect a fast food diet has on overall health. Fat, Sick [...]
0 comments Thursday 13 Oct 2011 | blogadmin | documentary, movie reviews, recommendations